Writing a grant proposal is similar to writing a manuscript in several ways. Getting started is no fun; in fact, it is agony. As Harold Frost told Pierre Meunier, and Pierre told me many years ago, "Trust your brain" The same is expressed in 'Find-ing Forrester', a film about a famous writer in the last years of his life who takes on an insecure young student from the Bronx—just sit down and start, write something, anything, just.......write!!